Situation: I'm working in a skilled nursing facility and the unit/station I'm in charge of has 39 residents. For AM shifts, all 39 residents have scheduled medications due at 9am. We are using electronic medical records so we are allow to give medication from 8am to 10am, all medication given after 10am will be considered as late.
Problem: the management kept on reminding me that I need to pick up my speed, they don't want my med pass to be late.
So am I lacking a certain skill or is there something essential that I didn't learn from nursing school? If anyone actually bother to do this simple math, to get through 39 patients in 2 hours that's 3 minutes per patient. THREE MINUTES PER PATIENT. Each patient has an average of 8+ medications need to be given. On top of that, 2/3 of the patients requires BP and/or apical pulse check before med administration. Furthermore, because it's a SNF, we get mostly geriatric patients, so these patients need time to take their medication. So yea, if any of you are working or has worked at a SNF with similar situation, I will really appreciate it if you could share your experience on how to handle this.
